Gage for shingling-hatchets.



L. A. SAYRE.

GAGE FOB. SHINGLING HATGHETS.

v APPLIGATION FILED MAY 4, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

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WITNESSES.

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GAGE FOR SHINGLINGr-HATCHETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 4, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910. Serial No. 493,980.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs A. SAYRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Gage for Shingling-I-Iatchets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gages for shingling hatchets, in which an adjustable gage may be fixedly set upon the shingling hatchet, to gage certain dimensions of shingling distances; and still have facility if required, to be set fixedly at intermediate or extensible distances thereupon. I attain these objects by means of the gage illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1, is a top view of hatchet and gage. Fig. 2, is a side view of the same. Fig. 3, is a top perspective view of gage. Fig. 4, is a bottom perspective view of gage.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

Upon the forward portion of the hatchet blade 9' near the edge thereof, are provided several holes, as f f f spaced apart at cer-- tain intervals, as for instance, four and one half inches, five, and five and one half inches, from the hammer face of the hatchet head The gage, consists of a body 0 formed with wings 6 extended apart at right angles to said body, which form the gage stops to the implement. The gage body a is provided with a slot 9 adapted to clasp the hatchet blade j and be attached thereto by screw cl which passes through clearance hole at if in gage 0 and in blade at f and threads in hole 2' in gage, to obtain the usual gaging distance; but if an intermediate distance is desired, the provision is made therefor, by means of clearance hole It and threaded hole 2' in the gage body 0, which will vary the distance to the extent of the distance between the holes h and if.

The advantages of the foregoing arrangements are, that, when attaching holes are provided in the hatchet blade y as at 7, f P, in

the usual manner; by my invention, the gage 0 may be set to gage distances in diminution, or extension thereof, without the diflicult operation of making additional holes in the hatchet blade j to secure such desired result.

In the operation of manufacturing hatchets with gage attachments, it has been the practice to provide either an oblong slot in the margin of the blade, or a plurality of holes in the same whereby to attach and set the gage. My invention is intended to overcome the difiiculties of such method of manufacture, for if such perforations are made in blade before hardening and tempering, the blades are liable to warp or to crack; and if the perforations are made after hardening, it is a difficult and expensive operation. By my invention both the expense and difliculty are reduced to the minimum; as but three holes are needed in the blade to attain the whole required range of gage distances.

I am aware that hatchets have been provided with slots to set the gages to any point therein, and that gages have been made with set screws to attach them to unpunctured blades; but such means do not give the positive fixed attachment of my invention, with its certain intermediate or extensible fractional capacity of measurement.

hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The combination with a shingling hatchet having perforations provided therein to attach a shingling gage thereto, of a shingling gage adapted to the same, and having a plurality of attaching holes, to afford means for extensible or intermediate attachment thereto; substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS A. SAYRE. Witnesses FRED D. HYER, H. C. SAYRE. 

